The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-08-25

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. o.
AUDI alterem parton.
''I learn through your letter to the
SENTINEL said a North Carolina
politician to me yesterday, 'that our
friend Leach opines that Cox and
Boyd will be the opposing gubernator
ial candidates in our State next year.
| don't think so.
INTERNATIONAL GOSSIP.
$50 far as the Democratic candidate
is concerned" he continued. che
ought to be taken from the central
section of the State, for the good and
sufficient reason that the East and the
West have had possession of the exc
cutive chair ever since the party
came into power in 1877. Vance rep
resenting the West, was elected in '76
and served two years he was succeed
ed by Jarvis who served the other
two years of that term. Then Jarvis
representing the East, was elected and
served four years, giving the East a
six years whack at the office. Scales
representing the West, is now serving
Ills tSdlS OCI LII anu WhCA ~ "a
pires the East and the West will each
have been represented 6 years out Of
the 12 years of Democratic rule That
being so, 1 think the next State con-
vention will also think that it is about
time Central North Carolina had
showing. But don't think General
Cox will be the nominee. In my
opinion Col. Thomas M. Holt, of Ala
nance, is the coming man." Then
my Solomon friend paused to catch
breath, while graspsd the opportun-
ity to observe:
Well, Colonel Holt is good man,
and 1 believe he would prove to be a
strong candidate, for several reasons.
Individually he is fine man and an
excellent gentleman; politically he
is one of the best Democrats in the
State, and he represents something. He
represents, in larger sense than any
other man in the State, the industrial
Interests of North Carolina, and that
is what we want. He is manufact-
urer and employs hundreds of hands
he is business man; he is farmer,
and thank goodness, he !. not q la,U-
ger!
This last one is an immense recon-
mendation, in that it is so rare a vir-
tue with North Carolina officials gen
erally-and the people are getting tir-
ed Of electing lawyers to all the offices.
Then again, suppose the Republi-
cans should put up Richmond Pear
son or Jim Boyd, both lawyers, how
could any Kni ght of Labor vote for a
man who is not allowed in their order
in preference to one who so thorough
ly represents their means of support?
Gum, um," mumbled my friend.
81 hadn't thought of that, Oh, of
course, of course, Tom Holt is the
man"
But" continued the North Caro-
lima politician as he moved away,
"Jim Boyd will not be his opponent
Richmond Pearson, Chal les Price, or
Oliver Dockery will be the anthem
ocratic can iidate''
GRADY ON GROVER.
That brilliant young Southern
newspaper man, Henry W. Grady, of
the Atlanta Constitution, who was
here last week, speaks in the highest
terms Of admiration for President
Cleveland and feels sure that he will
be both renominated and reelected.
"The South knows a good Presi-
dent, and will not fail to show its APP
probation of his goodness said Mr.
Grady. s'That Mr.. Cleveland has
been good President is admitted by
the whole country. The small growl
that we sometimes hear coming from
certain Democratic quarters has no
bite at the back of it because it has
no reason. and it is becoming fainter
and fainter as the days go by. 1t
was natural that a few persons who
expected too much should be disap-
pointed and wherever there has
been disappointment with Mr.. Cleve-
land it has been purely personal. A
Democratic Administration should
not be an administration Of fayors,
and those who have had no favors to
ask of this Administration have had
no fault to find with it.
Cleveland is much stronger with
the country now than when he was
elected. It is mora certainty that
when the nominating convention
meets the South will be solid for the
denomination of Cleveland, and there
does not seem to be much fear that
the Northern Democrats will take any
other course, and from present APP
pearances it would SEEM that there
would hardly be a struggle; but
whether there is Or not the sure out
come will be the denomination of Mr..
Cleveland. About the election there
would be no doubt at all were it not
for the uncertainty about the course
and strength of the Labor party. Ala
bama and Virginia may make little
noise about tariff and internal revenue
wherein their interests may diverge
from the accepted principles of the
Democratic party; but in national
contest they are all Democrats, and no
mistake. Prohibition is gaining
ground in some of the Southern States
but it it will be many year before
Prohibition steals a Southern State
from the Democratic party There
are especially in New YorkState, those
who clamor for a Labor party, call
themselves Labor party, and threat
en- to put Labor party ticket in the
field next year. This is not quite q
new factor in our national politics ;
but it seems somehow to have got a
new impulse recently. IF it realizes
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